Safety milk-bottle support and sanitary protector therefor



D. DUNN. SAFETY MILK BOTTLE SUPPORT AND SANITARY PROTECTOR THEREFOR. APPLICATION man MAY 23, 1919.

1,836,826, Patented Apr. 13, 192i).

UNiTED STATES PATENT orrrcn.A

DAVID DUN'N, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SAFETY MILK-BOTTLE SUPPORT AND SANITARY PROTECTOR THEREFOR.

Application led May 23, 1919.

To all 'whom t may conce/rn Be it known that I, DAVID DUNN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Safety Milk-Bottle Support and Sanitary Protector Therefor, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a device for supporting a milk bottle and prevent abstraction of the same, while also guarding the mouth of the bottle while in its support from being handled, and otherwise rendered unsanitary.

rlhe invention is satisfactorily illustrated in the accompanying drawing, but the important instrumentalities thereof may be varied, and so it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the specific details shown and described, as long as they are within the spirit or scope of the claims.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a device embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal vertical section thereof on line 2 2 Fig. 3.

Fig. 3 represents a transverse verticalsec tion thereof on line 3--3 Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 represents a horizontal section on line 4-4 Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 represents a perspective view of the device detached from position.

Fig. 6 represents a perspective view of a detached portion of the device.

Fig. 7 represents a perspective view of a detached portion of the device in separated condition.

Fig. 8 represents a perspective View of a cap employed to close the inlet opening through which the bottle is inserted when said bottle is removed.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings.,

1 designates vthe door of a hallway of an apartment, and2 designates the frame or jamb thereof. 3 designates a vertically exf,

tending attaching plate which is secured to the j amb 2 and on its upper and lower ends are the runways l in whichv are fitted the corresponding ends of the slidable plate 5 with which is connected the hood or cover 6 which projects outwardly from said plate 5.

At the place of connection of said hood with said plate is the elbow 7 in which is the upper end of the block 8 which has depend ing legs 9 whose lower ends are seated on the Specification of Letters Patent.

hood. vneck of the bottle clears the end of the Patented Apr. 13, 1920.

serial No. 299,226. I

elbow 10 on the lower portion of the plate 5, thus sustaining said block, whereby the hood is reinforced and held firmly in its operative position, as most plainly shown in Fig. 2.

Owing to the legs 9, a passage 11 is formed between the same below the block 8, the same being in communication with the passage 5X formed in the plate 5.

On the lower end of the front wall of the hood 6 is the inturned flange 12 in whose rear end is the circular recess 13 opposite to which is the spring plate or flap la in whose front end is the circular recess 15, said recess being adapted to receive the neck of the bottle 16 while the shoulder 17 is adapted to rest on the flange 12 and said spring plate, 14.

The rear portion of said spring plate is seated freely on the slidable bar 18 and is secured thereto by the cleat 19 with which the rear end of said spring plate and that of the bar 1S are connected as one.

The side ends of the bar 18 extend beyond the sides of the spring plate 14 forming the tongues 2O which are movably seated in the recesses 21 in the base of the legs 9, see Fig. 3, and supported on the upper ends of the elbow 10, see Fig. 2.

The operation is as follows, the parts being in position as shown in Figs. 1 and 2:

The hood isr open below by the passage 13A and the spring plate 14 has in it in the side toward said passage 13, the passage 15, the two passages 15 and 13 forming an inlet for the top of the bottle. The milkman presents the mouth of the bottle to the underside of the spring plate and presses the bottle upwardly, it being noticed that the spring plate is of' less length than the bar 18 and so the mouth of the bottle is not obstructed by` said bar. Then the free end of the spring` ,plate yields upwardly, the mouth of the bottle not contacting with the underside of the bottom flange 12 of the As soon as the shoulder 17 of the spring, the bottle is moved toward the flange 13 so that portion of said shoulder is seated on said flange, and the spring plate springs under the other portion of said shoulder. the neck of the bottle occupying the recesses 13 and 15 and so the bottle is suspended by its shoulder on said flange and spring plate and locked therewith. whereby it cannot be abstracted from below, it being noticed that the door 1 is in closed position and prevents outward movement of the hood with the bottle container therein.

The mouth of the bottle is now covered and guarded by the hood and so is inaccessible by insects, animals or persons.

`Wlien the attendant of the house wishes to remove the bottle the door is opened and the hood with its appurtenances is moved outwardly in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 1, so as to remove said hood from the runways, the ends of' which latter toward the door are open, it being also removed from the door jamb 2, as shown in Fig. 5.

The attendant now takes hold of the removed hood, the bottle depending` therefrom, see Fig. 5, and grasps the bottle. The spring plate or Hap 111 is now moved toward the back of the hood, its side tongues 20 sliding in the recesses 21 in the base of the legs 9 toward said back. As the spring plate 4 recedes from the Harige 12 the wall oi the recess 15 is separated from the wall of the recess 13 in said flange 12, the spaces between said recesses being so increased that the bottle is virtually no longer held and so can be removed downwardly by the attendant through said recesses, see Fig. 7 The spring plate is now moved toward the flange 12, and the hood fitted on the runways 11. The door is then closed whereby removal of the hood in the direction toward the same is prevented. As the runways are closed on the ends toward the hall or a room or apartment, the hood cannot be removed in that direction.

When a bottle is removed and the hood with its appurtenances are restored to operative position, the recesses 18 and 15 may be covered by the cap 22 which may drop over the same, thus preventing insects from entering the hood through said recesses, it being evident that the hood is now closed from below, and so all sides of the hood are closed.

The cap is shown in Fig. 2, but it has been removed from 3, while it is shown separately in Fig. 8.V

The inner limbs of the runways have therein the holes 23 through which screws may be driven into the attaching plate into the jamb 2, so that when the hood is in' operative position on said jamb, the heads of the screws are covered by the terminals of the back plate 5, and so the hood cannot be removed from within the hallway, a room, or apartment as most plainly shown in Fig. 2.

The cap 22 has in its sides the slots 24 and on the inner sides of the opposite walls of' the hood 6 the vertical rods 25, see Figs. 4 and 8, said slots being adapted to receive said rods whereby the cap is movably guided upwardly when pressed from below by the bottle, when the latter is inserted into the hood, but when the bottle has been removed,

said cap is permitted to drop and so cover the recesses 13 and 15 as above stated, said cap also dropping on themouth of the lled bottle when in the hood, thus guarding said mouth from the insects that may possibly enter the hood.

Having thus described my invention what l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a device of the character stated, an attaching plate, runways on said plate, a slidable hood having its inner end occupying freely said runways, an inturned flange on the lower portion of the outer wall of said hood, a slidable resilient flap in said hood opposite to said flange, and means for supporting said flap, said flap and flange having therein recesses opposite to each other, and said hood being movable on said runways, and said flap being movable in said hood in directions at right angles to each other.

2. In a device of the character stated, an attaching plate, runways on said plate, a hood, a slidable plate adapted to carry the latter and having its ends freely occupying said runways, an inturned flange xon the lower end of the front wall of said hood, a resilient flap in said hood opposite to said flange, and a slidable bar adapted to carry said flap, said hood being removable from said runways and said bar with its flap being removable from said hood in directions at right angles to each other.

3. In a device of the character stated, a resilient flap having a recess therein, a flange having therein a recess opposite to that in said flap, a slidable bar adapted to carry said flap, a hood, said flange being supported on said hood, means attachable to a door jamb for removably sustaining said hood thereon, and means on said hood adapted to removably sustain said flap thereon.

4. In a device of' the character stated, a hood having therein a back plate, a strengthening block in said hood, said block and plate having registering openings therein, a flange on the base portion of said hood, a resilient flap in said hood opposite to said flange, said flap and flange having therein recesses opposite to each other, a bar adapted to carry said flap and permit the latter to be raised and lowered at its recessed end, means in the hood adapted to support said bar and permit the flap thereon to be moved toward and from said flange and permit said flap to be removed from said hood, said hood being adapted to be mounted movably on the liamb of a door whereby said hood may be removed from said jamb and said flap may be removed from said hood.

5. In a device of the character stated, a

.ho-od, means for movably mounting the latsaid hood, a stationary flange on the base portion of said hood opposite to said iap, a block in said hood having supporting legs adapted to be seated in said hood, said legs having therein recesses in which said iap is movably fitted, means in the hood adljacent to said recesses on which said flap is movably sustained, the parts named being combined whereby the hood with its contents may be removed from said jamb, and said flap may be removed Jfrom the hood, the removal of said hood from said jamb, and said flap from said hood being adapted to be accomplished in directions at right angles to each other.

(3. In a device of the character stated, a hood, means therein for removably supporting a bottle, said hood having a back plate, and elbows adjacent to said plate, and a reinforcing block in said hood adapted to be retained by said elbows, said block having depending legs forming a passage between them.

7. In a device of the character stated, a laterally slidable hood, means therein for removably supporting a bottle, and an attaching plate for said hood adapted to be secured to the jamb of a door, runways on the upper and lower terminals of said plate, said hood having a back plate whose terminals are adapted to be fitted movably in said runways, the upper and lower terminals of said back plate of said slidable hood in .said runways being adapted to cover the and said hood having therein guide rods which are adapted to enter said slots, Where by said cap 1s movable on said rods.

DAVID DUNN.

Witnesses JOHN A. WLEDERSHEIM, N. BUssiNGER. 

